The plumber cut a hole the size of one cinder block in the basement wall, looked in and started laughing. “You will never guess what’s back here,” he told the homeowner. Constance, who posts on TikTok as @corks369, guessed a dead body. It was a refrigerator.
She described it as a huge fridge and freezer combination “from, like, 1960,” and said it had been “just shoved in a hole in my house that they just put wood over.” She told the story in a video posted in March 2025.
The whole account runs 99 seconds, straight to camera, with Constance in a gray knit beanie and a navy sweatshirt. It opens: “Not on my bingo card for today. Finding a refrigerator in my basement.” The fridge is not shown, so what follows is her description of it.
The house was a flip. She said she had the plumber out to look at the plumbing work done for it, work she said “didn’t have any permits or anything pulled for it.” She also asked him about a well that, in her words, “wasn’t properly abated.”
Then she showed him a wall that “should have been cinder block” and was not. He asked whether he could cut into it to see what was going on with the well, in case the well had been dealt with and the permit was simply never pulled. Her answer: “Yes, absolutely. Cut a hole. We’ll document it because I’m gonna have to send it to the attorney.”
He kept the opening to the size of a single block, just enough to see in. What it showed, by her account, was that a section of the block wall was gone. “They took the cinder block wall out of my basement,” she said. “They cut my foundation out.” The fridge sat in the gap. Then, she said, “they put a piece of plywood in front of it and painted over it to make it look like cinder block.”
She did not name whoever did the flip, and her view that the wall was cut to hide the appliance is her own reading of what the plumber found. Her caption is “Get a house they said.” Her last line in the video is a request for an apartment instead.
For a buyer walking a flipped house, her story points at one check. Go to every basement wall that is supposed to be block, knock on it and press on it. In her basement the fake section was plywood, which gives under a hand where block does not. Look for a seam where a painted panel meets the real wall.
Before closing, ask the seller in writing which permits were pulled for the work done during the flip, starting with plumbing, and ask for the permit numbers. Her plumber was there in the first place because she said that paperwork did not exist. If the property has an old well, ask for the record showing how it was closed.
For an owner who already suspects a wall, her sequence was this. She had a tradesperson make the opening, it stayed at one block, and she said yes on the condition that it was documented. Take photos of the wall before the cut, the cut itself and whatever is behind it, with the date, and ask the tradesperson to write down what he found.
Photograph everything as found before anything is pulled out or patched. Her stated reason for the record was that it was going to her attorney. A missing section of foundation block is also a question for a structural engineer, and the time to ask is while the opening is still there to look through.
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